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I wondering why you guys cant get a French version ?

It would be very useful to have a trash.

Often, delete something and then we can not recover.
Or we do not dare to delete something that does not believe that we need, but for fear of not being able to recover what we have.

Sorry for my English

I want Hints on links.

Our WIKI has three distinct sections, IT techincal, one page per screen, Procedural and Background information. At the top of each page we cross reference, so in a Technical page I will link to relevant Procedure and Background information. Currently we have the text of the link and the link itself.

Wouldn't it be good if we could have a popup hint for the link?

Are you aware of/participating in the Universal Edit Button movement? It sounds as if it has great potential to enervate a participatory culture and seems as if it is in line with PBwiki goals and objectives.

Check it out at http://universaleditbutton.org/
or on the ReadWriteWeb at http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/...

We've launched our new version of notifications today! You can find more information here:
http://blog.pbwiki.com/2008/06/16/new...

Be sure to tell us what you think!

We've launched our new version of notifications today! Find out more information here:
http://blog.pbwiki.com/2008/06/16/new...

Be sure to tell us what you think!

Google Sites has a page type called "list" as an option when creating a new page. Unfortunately this does not appear to be a gadget so I cannot just copy the code and use it in my pbwiki.

Howerver I think the funtionality is really useful - it allows you to create a table with any number of columns amd associate each column with a data type (checkbox, date, dropdown selected from specified choices, text and URL). Can this be done with pbwiki and if not are there any plans in store to implement this functionality?

Recent changes to the pbwiki 2.0 api have created a secure way to allow anyone to get editor access to your wiki without compromising your admin security. This should be a sufficient replacement for public 1.0 wikis that published their invite key.
Ok.. here's the source code you should add if you want to create a user signup page on your 2.0 wiki:

<div id="admin_key" style="visibility: hidden">YOUR_ADMIN_KEY_GOES_HERE</div>
<p><img class="pluginslug" contenteditable="false" src="/plugin_helper.php?plugin=googlegadget&html=%3Cscript+src%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fcopytest3.pbwiki.com%2Ff%2Fsignup.js%27%3E%3C%2Fscript%3E&w=200&h=50" isapbwikiplugin="1" /></p>

Here's a demo if you want to see it in action:
http://copytest2.pbwiki.com/signup

Here's what you need to do in order to use this script on your wiki:

http://yourwiki.pbwiki.com/api_v2/#Ad...

click the [show] that's next to opkey_adduser_edit on that page....
Don't be afraid of all the programmer speak on the page, it will not harm you.
Copy the magic code that it reveals for you into the YOUR_ADMIN_KEY_GOES_HERE from the snippet above

just want to say that PBwiki Rocks the house at Seesmic. Keep up the great work.

One of the main utilities of the wiki is to enhance collaboration and minimize email traffic.

To that end, I would like to see a tool to create a list of a new stories that can be added to manually and that will exist as an RSS feed as well that could be used on the front page. We often come across new stories that we would like to share with everyone, along with a brief note explaining its relevance.

Also, if we could have some similar for questions (such as this tool...), that would be useful for our internal purposes as well.

Thanks!

Here's three edits that you can make to your wiki to get a "classic editor" that I created for 2.0 wikis.

page: SideBar
<p><img class="pluginslug" contenteditable="false" src="/plugin_helper.php?plugin=googlegadget&html=%3Cscript+src%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fcopytest3.pbwiki.com%2Ff%2Fclassiceditlink.js%22%3E%3C%2Fscript%3E&w=200&h=50" isapbwikiplugin="1" /></p>
<p><em><a href="/newpage">Classic New Page</a></em></p>

page: editor
<div id="place_form_here"> </div>
<p><img class="pluginslug" contenteditable="false" src="/plugin_helper.php?plugin=googlegadget&html=%3Cscript+src%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fcopytest3.pbwiki.com%2Ff%2Fclasseditor.js%27%3E%3C%2Fscript%3E&w=200&h=50" isapbwikiplugin="1" /></p>

page: newpage
<p><img class="pluginslug" contenteditable="false" src="/plugin_helper.php?plugin=googlegadget&html=%3Cscript+src%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fcopytest3.pbwiki.com%2Ff%2Fclassnewpage.js%22%3E%3C%2Fscript%3E&w=200&h=50" isapbwikiplugin="1" /></p>

A couple of disclaimers...
Once you hit save, the page is converted to pbwiki 2.0 style html, so it's "write only"... but you can still use it to add more content... I had fun using this to edit pages where all I wanted to do was insert [links].

additionally, it appears to strip plugins, so it's really best for plain test pages that you'd like to use WikiStyle to quickly create or edit.

hope this is useful.. It's probably the closest thing we're going to get to old fashion wikistyle in pbwiki 2.0 for quite a while..

I created a wiki for a group.

Can I transfer ownership of it to another party?

This way I can promote pbwiki, drive adoption, and hand over ownership when the time is right.

We have had staff sign up for e-mail notifications, but many find the e-mails very confusing. With all the cross-throughs and editing it is sometimes difficult to read. We have also had a few people that do not want others to view certain edits (for example, when a mistake was made, and they just want to correct it without sharing the mistake with the world.) What we really would like is to just get a notification that changes have been made to a page, with a link to that page.

Any possibility of having a choice when selecting e-mail notifications? You could pick either "Show editing" or "Link to changed page(s)."

ok... it's by no means pretty...

<div id="myusertable">form</div>
<div id="responser">response</div>
<div id="addedusers">users</div>
<p><img class="pluginslug" contenteditable="false" src="/plugin_helper.php?plugin=googlegadget&html=%3Cscript+src%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Felothtes.pbwiki.com%2Ff%2Fcreate_usertable.js%22%3E%3C%2Fscript%3E&w=200&h=50" isapbwikiplugin="1" /></p>
<p><img class="pluginslug" contenteditable="false" src="/plugin_helper.php?plugin=googlegadget&html=%3Cscript+src%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Felothtes.pbwiki.com%2Ff%2Fuploadusers_onclick.js%27%3E%3C%2Fscript%3E&w=200&h=50" isapbwikiplugin="1" /></p>
<p> </p>

but if you put that snippet in your pbwiki 2.0 wiki, you get a form that will allow you to add as many users at once as you'd like... the only down side is that you have to click "ok" a few times per user... but just hold down the enter or escape key and that should be dealth with easily enough...

I'm a presenter. I like to use wikis to support a back channel discussion during presentations (which sometimes span several days or even weeks). Additionally, such a back channel becomes a repository of the attendees' experiences and ideas while at the presentation. The group is ad-hoc: I do not know them in advance, nor do I have access to their email addresses.

Under PBWiki 1.0, I could create a wiki in front of them, in effect demonstrating the ease with which PBWiki could be used to support their own activities while providing the above benefits.

* Create the wiki
* Reply to the confirmation email
* Set a wiki password
* Distribute the wiki URL and password to the audience
* Audience members immediately begin contributing to the wiki

The user model under PBWiki 2.0 doesn't support this.

I use firefox and as such get a useful set of context menus when I right click on any web control that accepts user input, I get "spell check this control" as one of my options. In V1, as long as you weren't over something special (link / table), you got the context menu. In V2, no menu, so V2 editor is taking control off all right clicks.

Now I may have my own context menu plug-ins written in firefox or whatever, so I should really be able to access them (especially spell checking). If it is that the V2 context menu is taking over, then maybe a button on the toolbar to disable the editor context menus and let the browser ones work (temporarily).

Failure will lead to people realizing how bad my spelling is.

Currently, If I rename a page that is referenced by many other pbwiki pages, there will be alot of dead links on those pages due to the name change.
Wouldn't it be a nice idea to automaticly rename all the referenced links to the renamed page as well? Or, for that matter, a searchbutton which gathers all the pages containing a link to a certain page?

Check out the PBwiki support Twitter account to discuss ideas, find out what's going on at PBwiki, and get to know the support team! Our user name is PBwikiSupport

Folks, we've noticed a lot of email invites to 2.0 wikis being eaten by various email systems.

I've outlined the steps you can take to get your users (a) Accounts and (b) access to your wiki:

(a) Get all your users set up with Accounts

1. Go to http://my.pbwiki.com and click "sign up" for a new PBwiki Account.
2. Make sure they all receive the verification email, and verify their Accounts.
3. Have your users email you from the address they used to set up the Account so you know who signed up with what email address.
4. Go to your wiki, and click on Settings in the right-hand corner, then Users.
5. Add each person's email address as a writer (or whatever access level you choose).
6. Each person should receive an email inviting them to the wiki. If not, don't worry, they still have access.

(b) Get your users access to your wiki:

1. Go to my.pbwiki.com
2. Enter the Account email and Password that was set up earlier
3. Click the name of the wiki you want to go to
4. Edit the wiki!

Note: If your users don't receive a verification email for their PBwiki Account, have them contact Support so we can get them set up.

We're working on ways to make sure these emails get delivered in the first place, but in the meantime, this is a reliable way to get everyone onboard.

Thanks for your patience.

Allow wiki owners to specify how many recent changes can be displayed under the Recent Wiki Activity list. For example, I would like to only display the last three most recent changes to the wiki, but maybe other owners my want to display more.

This might also help other people who say they want to get rid of the box altogether because it takes up too much space on the page. Nice to have, but not essential.